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this doesn't help me, because I feed the string through nltk and it thinks don is a separate word, cutting off the word don't

jason
– jason

2015-10-16 11:56:36 +00:00
Commented Oct 16, 2015 at 11:56
i think this is a nltk problem then, thanks for the help

jason
– jason

2015-10-16 12:06:28 +00:00
Commented Oct 16, 2015 at 12:06
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It's not an nltk "problem". The backslashes are how python is showing you that the string doesn't end at the apostrophe, as everyone has said. The usual NLTK tokenization intentionally breaks up words at the apostrophe; this has nothing to do with the backslashes.

alexis
– alexis

2015-10-16 20:49:43 +00:00
Commented Oct 16, 2015 at 20:49

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